Which Prep test do you recommend the students to must practi

[lathlee]

Hello.

Today my question is Following:
Out of all 80 prep tests published by LSAC, which ones do you recommend that each students to practice before one writes LSAT?

Also which ones would you consider as particularly difficult ? I ask this because if I can solve all the questions in LSAT prep tests by several attempts if it takes, known as particularly difficult, then it would give me the confidence on actual LSAT test that I would take.

[Stephanie Oswalt]

Hello.

Today my question is Following:
Out of all 80 prep tests published by LSAC, which ones do you recommend that each students to practice before one writes LSAT?

Also which ones would you consider as particularly difficult ? I ask this because if I can solve all the questions in LSAT prep tests by several attempts if it takes, known as particularly difficult, then it would give me the confidence on actual LSAT test that I would take.

Hi Lathlee,

Thanks for your questions! An instructor will answer the specifics of your question soon, but in the meantime I thought I’d refer you to some PowerScore resources that touch on the items in your questions:

How to take an LSAT Practice Test: http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/215 ... ctice-test
10 steps to taking LSAT Practice Tests: http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/153 ... tice-tests
The 15 Hardest LR Questions: http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/153 ... ime-part-i
The 11 Hardest LG Questions: http://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid/153 ... f-all-time

Also, our self study plans (http://students.powerscore.com/self-study/index.cfm) offer a set of Recommended Study Materials—from PowerScore publications and resources, to real practice LSATs from the test makers—followed by detailed weekly assignments to get you ready for test day.

That will hopefully get you started!

[lathlee]

Hi. another important question.

As i stated many times, I already purchased and solved Lesson 1-12 LSAT, book 1-12 that cost about 1000 back in 2011. I also bought 2011 version of LSAT Logic bible sets and 2016 version LSAT Logic bible sets, planning to buy 2017 LSAT logical comprehension that Mr. David Killoran recommended me to buy. this package also contained killer games. Mr. David Killoran said here are the hardest questions ever in the blog you posted, Stephanie. The killer games Mr. David is mentioning in his blogs are also contained in those lesson questions or do I need to purchase some of prep tests or all of prep tests in order to do the questions you mentioned as difficult?

Also, I also hope you utilize the data; Lesson 1-12 LSAT, book 1-12 that cost about 1000 back in 2011. I am currently working on the questions that I got wrong in all of these books, which I had some success of getting them correctly. I also bought 2011 version of LSAT Logic bible sets and 2016 version LSAT Logic bible sets, planning to buy 2017 LSAT logical comprehension that Mr. David Killoran recommended me to buy, to recommend me to practice which prep tests as well.

[Stephanie Oswalt]

Hi Lathlee,

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here, but if you're looking to see if those questions are contained in the material - in the current version of the Bibles, the tests used are listed at the end of the publication. Each book will have a usage tracker like this at the end, so you can check to see if any of those questions are in the editions of the Bibles you have.

We've updated our course books since 2011, so I wouldn't be able to determine which of those questions would be in one of our older course books. But if you took our course in the past, all licenseable LSAT questions are contained in our Full Length Course, so chances are you have encountered many of these questions before.

On that blog post, we list the question number name, and the test it’s from on that webpage. We also provide a link to purchase the tests that those questions are from. (Because of LSAC we are unfortunately not allowed to post the actual text from the questions on our website.)

I hope this helps!

[lathlee]

Hi. Steph. Those were helpful.

However, these are my concerns:

My questions in first place were which prep tests 1-80 do you particularly recommend for someone like me (considering the questions I did and the level you are assuming) to take before I actually write LSAT?

Also, plz ask David or someone, which prep tests, (More than 1 ) among 1-80 were known as particularly difficult as overall average NOT about containing particularly difficult questions but LSAT as in section 1 -4 + experimental section overall. I want to try to solve these questions because I believe if I have the experience of struggling and solving difficult level LSATs, I can have a confidence in actual LSAT that I already went through difficult experience.

Thank you for the consideration,

[Jon Denning]

Hey lathlee—thanks for the questions!

As to which tests to take, if you're planning on the June test here in about 2.5 weeks then I'd focus on the most recent exams (tests in the 70s up to 80, which is the latest). You want to be sure you're familiar with the content most recently tested, as that's the best representation of what you're likely to see on the upcoming exams.

If you're just working on individual sections you can go back a little further, but use tests from the past 2-3 years whenever possible for full exams.

To your other question about which tests are toughest, that's trickier, as "difficulty" is an incredibly subjective thing. That is, a tricky game or challenging RC passage that stumps the majority of testers can skew an exam and make it seems hard, but for an individual not tripped up in that moment the overall difficulty is much lower. So it's hard to find genuine consensus on objective difficulty.

That said, you're not entirely stuck. To me the best way to semi-reliably gauge it is by using the conversion scales, where harder exams (tests where people performed worse on the whole) will have looser scales requiring fewer questions correct to achieve a certain score.

Looking at the list at https://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/co ... rgeted.cfm you can see soft scales for June 2013, December 2013, June 2014, and to a slightly lesser degree June 2016 (through the mid levels it's loose but tightens up a bit in the 160s+). Again, it'll always be somewhat subjective/individualized, but those are the most recent standouts in terms of scale indication.

I hope that helps!

[lathlee]

Hi. Jon

Thank you so much for this valuable answer.
I am planning to write the September one.
This info you provided me was tremendous help.
May i also possible to have data of score range and incorrect answers for Prior to June 2005 one?

Thank you for the consideration,

[Jon Denning]

No problem! Happy to hear that it helped!

We don't have data compiled for the exams prior to 2005 since trends of 12+ years ago aren't particularly relevant for what today's test takers face (and that's really the point of the page I linked), however if you grab copies of the 10 Actual books from LSAC you can flip to each test's scale and get a sense of what those older LSATs were like. I'd just be careful not to prioritize them as full tests over more recent material, as I mentioned in my last message, since the test has changed a fair amount since the early 2000s (the addition of comparative reading in 2007, for instance).